History

The Curtiss XP-60 was a fighter designed to supercede the famous Curtiss P-40.

The development process went through a number of versions with different engines but, in the end, did not result in any service aeroplanes being built.

In 1940 the Curtiss company began planning a successor for its P-40, resulting in a contract to develop the XP-53.

Very quickly it was replaced by a proposed fighter equipped with the Rolls Royce Merlin engine with other improvements including a laminar flow wing, designated the XP-60.

Due to a shortage of American built Merlin engines the design was changed again several times to be powered by several different engines.  One version was the XP-60C.

In April 1943 the USAAF conducted a contest of various fighters under development and the XP-60C performed poorly, so further development ceased and Curtiss made Republic P-47s under licence instead.

This model represents the sole XP-60C, c. early 1943

Anigrand 1/72 kit completed by Leigh Edmonds in March 2011.

Data

MODEL: Curtiss XP-60C

ROLE: Fighter

TIME PERIOD: 1941-1944

ENGINES: one Pratt & Whitney R-2800-53 radial engine of 1500 kW

WING SPAN: 12.60m

LENGTH: 10.34m

GROSS WEIGHT: 5,368kg

MAXIMUM SPEED: 666km/h

RANGE: 507km

CREW: 1

ARMAMENT: four 12.7mm M3 Browning machine guns.

SCALE: 1/72

KIT:

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